Moving aggressively to strengthen their rotation, the Yankees acquired the right-händer Javier Vazquez from the Atlanta Braves in exchange for outfielder Melky Cabrera, left-handed reliever Mike Dunn and prospects. Yankees received Boone Logan, Left-handed reliever in the deal.
Vazquez together C.C. Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Andy Pettitte in the rotation, which is packed with strikeout pitc
hers. Vazquez has 238 strikeouts last season, second in the giant 'Tim Lincecum in the National League.Vazquez was 15-10 with a 2.87 earned run average last season in Atlanta, and is among the most durable starters in baseball for more than ten years. Five times since the Yankees traded him after the 2004 American League Championship Series, Vazquez was one of only two pitchers with 1,000 strikeouts and 1,000 innings. Others are Johan Santana with the Mets.
Vazquez was the All-Star for the Yankees in 2004, but fell apart in the second half of this period, which culminated in the ALCS Game 7, two home runs he gave Johnny Damon in Boston, including a big slam. Re-entry is made for striped game of musical chairs.
Damon played the last four times Yankees tenure that ended when the Yankees signed Nick Johnson for the Hitter. Johnson was in town for the physical, and if it passes, its one-year, 5.5 million U.S. dollars deal is official. Johnson was originally a Yankee, but was traded to Montreal for Vazquez after the season 2003rd
Vazquez will be 11.5 million U.S. dollars in 2010, recent three-year, 34.5 million U.S. dollars to address. According to the Post Yankees prospect of sending in Atlanta is a right-händer Arodys Vizcaino, 19, 2-4 at 2.13 era in 10 starts for Class Staten Island last season. Vizcaino named the team third-best prospect last week, Baseball America.
Regarding the box to the left, Cabrera is expected to be the starter, and not him, he could contact the Yankees Brett Gardner, with 26 steals, a .345 on-base percentage. Their wages are close to 200 million U.S. dollars, a level not want to cross and I was told last week that the difference between the salary and expected salary Johnson Damon is easier to get from the pitcher. That's what happened.
Because the Yankees, it is difficult to decide something out. But the idea that the Yankees just go out and spend on Damon Matt Holliday, or fill the left field is stupid. They won the World Series of Chad Curtis, Ricky Lede, Shane Spencer and, yes, Brett Gardner in the outfield. If you give them a job in Gardner or sign stopgap / supersub types of people like Mark DeRosa, is not surprising that I was not.
